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SATHER CLASSICAL LECTURES Volume Forty-two

POLYBIUS

POLYBIUS by F.W. W A L B A N K

U N I V E R S I T Y OF CALIFORNIA PRESS BERKELEY, LOS ANGELES, L O N D O N

UNIVERSITY BERKELEY

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Contents

Preface I II

ix

The Man and His Work

i

Historical Traditions

32

III

Pragmatike historia

IV

Some Structural Problems : Time and Place

V VI

66 97

The Sixth Book

130

Polybius and Rome

157

Abbreviations and Select Bibliography

184

Index I II III IV

General Authors and Passages Inscriptions Greek

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Preface

Many of the ideas in this book have emerged over the years that I have spent working on a historical commentary on Polybius. Writing a commentary is a discipline which occasionally begins to feel like a strait-jacket; and every commentator, I suspect, sooner or later feels the urge to break out and write a more general book about his particular author, something, as Polybius would say, more